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Daily Briefing: Who got 12 weeks for underage prostitute trysts, Singapore's Olympics hopes, Man who sees dead people

Here are the day’s stories from around the web that Singaporeans are talking about.

  • A gravedigger who specialises in removing bodies of the deceased has told a vivid tale of seeing dead people and of ghosts following him home. Read the full story here.
     
  • All hopes for a Singapore gold medal in this years Olympics are on Joseph Schooling. WIll he, or any of the other 23 Singapore Olympians bring home the gold, silver, or bronze? Read the story here.
  • Underage prostitution scandal claims second scalp with Howard Shaw, scion of the Shaw Brothers movie empire, receiving 12 weeks jail time for his trysts with the then 17 year old prostitute. Watch the video.
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